JoltinJoe wrote:D1B wrote:
Joe, where is Hitler quoting Nietzche??? Like you claimed? So far, you've failed to provide anything after repeated requests. The only thing you do is make personal attacks and blow smoke up your catholic ass bout college classes you took at a catholic college.
Joe, just admit you were talking out of your ass again. Rather that quoting Shirer, how bout quoting HItler and your contention (lie) that Hitler "often" quoted Nietzche. This is a typical scumbag lawyer move: When pressed to provide evidence of your claim when you know you don't have any, use the next best thing and hope people confuse the two.
Joe, just admit you got busted talking out of your ass again.

The Third Reich quoting Nietzsche isn't good enough for you. You are a glutton for punishment.
You know, Nietzsche defenders try to claim all the time that Hitler never read Nietzsche. How could you possibly know? Publicly, Hitler honored Nietzsche, in fact making a highly publicized visit, documented by the Nazi propaganda machine, to the Nietzsche museum shortly after he became Chancellor. Whether he read NIetzsche or not, Nietzsche's thoughts found their way in much of the Third Reich's propaganda.
As I said earlier, I don't think Nietzsche would have condoned the Nazis' use of his writings, but there as a fair amount in his material that was easily appropriated by the Nazis.
Now, nowhere in this thread, save for one off-hand response to a question posed by Grizalltheway, did I say Hitler quoted Nietzsche. I have pretty consistently said Nazis/Third Reich and even my one reference to Hitler personally is more fairly read, in context, to more broadly mean the Nazi movement as a whole.
As for Nietzsche, his lack of a consistent or systematic outlook renders him a controversial and difficult figure. Here's a 1987 article from the NY Times which I think underscores the problem presented by Nietzsche's lack of clear expression or thought, and which discusses the efforts underway to rehabilitate Nietzsche's reputation and his connection to the Third Reich:
East Berlin Journal; Strange Bedfellows: Marxists Embrace Nietzsche
This is the best anyone will get here as far as a retraction from the almightly Joltin Joe. I guess I'll take it and add:
I know Hitler didn't read Nietzche the same way I know you didn't - you both demonstrate in your writings and actions absolutetly no knowledge of his philosophy. If anything, Hitler was the exact opposite. Nietzche would have hated Hitler and the Third Riech.
That Hiter appropriated him or a misunderstanding of his writings as a foil against marxism is a non issue for this discussion. Scumbag.
Hitler made the much publicized visit to the Nietzche archives only after an invitation by
Nietzche's sister and brother in law - both fervent anti-semites, fanatic Nazis, and wealthy benefactors of the nazi party. This trip was well orchestrated by german propaganda machine and Shirer most likely used prepared Nazi articles as his source for this section of Rise and Fall. While a great book, Rise and Fall has been criticized by historians for it's lack of sholarship on certain key points, including this one.
Nietzche's sisters' abuse of her brother's name for personal gain and to promote her and her husbands veiws on race is legendary. In fact, Will to Power and other of his last writings were partially rewritten by her to help push her warped anti semitism and German nationalism. All serious scholars disregard most of these writings.
Joe, you are a smart guy, sometimes, but you don't know everything. You too also fall victim to cliche thinking like this pathetic and old catholic attempt to hold Nietzche up as the godfather of National Socialism.
The truth is National Socialism and it's horrors originated from the the most educated and most christian and most catholic nations in the world at the time. The easy thing, like what you do as an apologist, is to find other things to blame this on, but it takes a man of courage and learning, like me, to finger the real problem - which was and still is religion.
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